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From: "Miquel van Smoorenburg" <miquels@cistron.nl>
Subject: Re: klibc and logging
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In article <3D58B14A.5080500@zytor.com>,
H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>However, I'm wondering what to do about logging.  Kernel log messages 
>get stored away until klogd gets started, but early userspace may need 
>some way to log messages -- and syslog is obviously not running.  The 
>easiest way to do this would probably be to be able to write to 
>/proc/kmsg (which probably really should be /dev/kmsg) and push messages 
>onto the kernel's message queue; but we could also have a dedicated 
>location in the initramfs for writing logs, and do it all in userspace. 

/dev/shm/log/ ?

Mike.

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